
he's having a hard enough time as is
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mmmmmm - time for desert: cheeeeeeeeeeled monkey brains!
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but you forgot Tunnocks Snowball - king of confectioneries.
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the Caramel is a good everyday biscuit, but if you want to feel special about yourself you need the teacake every time
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more times than I can recall. These days I don't drink very much but they're still aceness. It's their very ability to be so superb and yet so everyday that makes them the victor.
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you know it's a special day when there's teacakes on the table - perhaps an elderly reltive is having a birthday or a younger relative got found not guilty of a crime they did commit but they managed to intimidate the witnesses into not testifying THESE occassions would be cheapened by the use of an everyday biscut, no matter how great it is.
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except that you know there's somethign special about a biscuit when its mere appearance brightens the day. Would a teacake brighten a miserable grey day when the power's out and the light is failing? Well, yes, it would. As much as a pack of 10 caramel wafers? No.
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it's impossible to eat one without getting the filling all over your nose
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![Challenge Entry: Jesus on Tour [challenge entry]](/images/board_posticon_c.gif)

...we do know, however, that he failed to qualify a few years later at the Mt. Calvary regional heats.



(ever)
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i've just painted some pissed-off unLOL cats. I like my kitties angry.
here's the first one, two more coming...
"Mr. Frisky is alarmed by the sudden ringing of your iPhone.”

Click for bigger (133 kb)
“Mittens is displeased with your choice of economy cat food.”

“Monty dislikes the neighbour’s new dog intensely.”

www.shardcore.org/shardpress/index.php/2009/12/03/the-unlol-cats-2009/
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here's the first one, two more coming...
"Mr. Frisky is alarmed by the sudden ringing of your iPhone.”

Click for bigger (133 kb)
“Mittens is displeased with your choice of economy cat food.”

“Monty dislikes the neighbour’s new dog intensely.”

www.shardcore.org/shardpress/index.php/2009/12/03/the-unlol-cats-2009/

don't like cats angry though, it generally means they're scared
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apologies for the multiple threads - it seems i have angered the b3tards.
i tried the auto-hosting image thingy, but it seemed broken...
*skulks off back to the easel*
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i tried the auto-hosting image thingy, but it seemed broken...
*skulks off back to the easel*

They're very good, mind.
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they're crazy rules but BY GOD they're the only rules we got.
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if you'd posted them with some time in between, you'd have gotten no complaints yet more nice comments ;)
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delete away, why the fuck not? it tidies the place up.
Oh boo hoo, it made a flaming disappear.
bum nuggets to the lot of 'em
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Oh boo hoo, it made a flaming disappear.
bum nuggets to the lot of 'em

The pictures are ace and you obviously have talent.
For fucks sake people, get a grip. Who gives a shit if they are in separate threads or a thread gets deleted. IT DOESN'T MATTER.
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For fucks sake people, get a grip. Who gives a shit if they are in separate threads or a thread gets deleted. IT DOESN'T MATTER.

i don't post here much, mainly because people seem so damn tetchy about things like this.
shame, this place used to be a lot more fun 'back in the day' *sigh*
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shame, this place used to be a lot more fun 'back in the day' *sigh*

there's just a veneer of arse to keep the riffraff out.
Also: More kitty pictures please.
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Also: More kitty pictures please.

It just makes me laugh how people feel they have to moan about threadwasting and thread deletion, like we are running out of them and we have to cherish every one.
Internets is serious.
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Internets is serious.

but the main page of the board only hold so many.
This, as I understand it, is the cause of the threadwasting moans.
The cause of the thread deletion moans is drunks in skips shouting at pigeons.
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This, as I understand it, is the cause of the threadwasting moans.
The cause of the thread deletion moans is drunks in skips shouting at pigeons.

Very very angry.
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sighted and virile
for only £356.04 per day
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for only £356.04 per day

I'd likely say yes.
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designed for trendy, funky people with cool lifestyles, if the marketing is anything to go by
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I'm a PC, you see.
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but if Linux ran an advertising campaign and marketing strategy, I wonder what it would be?
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people were just generally pointing out that by some wobbly unwritten agreement threadwasting is frowned upon. I think it's better to tell'em in a nice way before someone else starts telling them to fuck off.
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*glows*
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The second one looks awfully like a photo I once took of my cat. I can never get mine to look angry though - they just never are.

You've even got the flattened ears thing going on.
Top work.
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Top work.

Angry bagpuss is angry
nice work
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nice work

"HIPPO HIPPO HIPPO! HIPPO HIPPO HIPPO!"
"HIPPO HIPPO CAMPUS"
-traditional-
oh hang on, that's not a song!
WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
*runs off screaming*
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"HIPPO HIPPO CAMPUS"
-traditional-
oh hang on, that's not a song!
WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
*runs off screaming*

with a hearty table thump.
Oddly enough he dies in the same week the RAF announce that they have closed the old Dambuster Bombing Range at Wianfleet, Lincs. (where Barnes Wallis and team they tested "Upkeep")
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Oddly enough he dies in the same week the RAF announce that they have closed the old Dambuster Bombing Range at Wianfleet, Lincs. (where Barnes Wallis and team they tested "Upkeep")

They're the same entity, inhabiting the Hucknall-Zelda Rubinstein continuum. It/they can only be opposed, never defeated.
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Why is this important for the general public to know?

All I need with it is some fruit, sugar and yeast, wait a few weeks, MIRACLE PERFORMED!
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Snobby wine lols
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in Kings X railway station once.
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lol. water to wine, yes, but can you make a submarine out of a bathtub?
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"Gods own country"
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That's one for the wall down at The Green Man.
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Robert powell will probably turn up in it soon.
He's certauinly the right age
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He's certauinly the right age

Please help, my computer is died. I press button it go "WHURRR" then it stop
I press button! It not go whurr! Why it no go wurr!
Mousey mouse is lighted up! not fuse! What a shit!
So, please make it work.
or, send me new one, bastard.
With love
Discomeats
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Fri 4 Dec 2009, 11:03,
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I press button! It not go whurr! Why it no go wurr!
Mousey mouse is lighted up! not fuse! What a shit!
So, please make it work.
or, send me new one, bastard.
With love
Discomeats

While the board is still relatively slow, I need to jack this thread (sorry ninj) to ask for some techie type advice.
I'm currently trying to take a long mp3 track (basically a whole 90 minute cassette burned to my PC) and edit it to lots of smaller tracks which I can then burn onto CD.
I've tried with Audacity but have become seriously baffled with all the different buttons and options. I just need something where I can play back the track, highlight any section I want to record, and export it as a wav or wma file.
My big problem (apart from being an idiot) is that the recording is taken from the radio and there are no obvious breaks in the recording that I can use for cutting and pasting purposes.
Does anyone know a really good, idiot-proof, preferably free, program I can use? It's getting close to Christmas and I need to get this rather enormous project finished, as it's a present for someone.
Thank you in advance anyone who sat through all that, and apologies to ninj for stealing his thread.
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I'm currently trying to take a long mp3 track (basically a whole 90 minute cassette burned to my PC) and edit it to lots of smaller tracks which I can then burn onto CD.
I've tried with Audacity but have become seriously baffled with all the different buttons and options. I just need something where I can play back the track, highlight any section I want to record, and export it as a wav or wma file.
My big problem (apart from being an idiot) is that the recording is taken from the radio and there are no obvious breaks in the recording that I can use for cutting and pasting purposes.
Does anyone know a really good, idiot-proof, preferably free, program I can use? It's getting close to Christmas and I need to get this rather enormous project finished, as it's a present for someone.
Thank you in advance anyone who sat through all that, and apologies to ninj for stealing his thread.

I suspect nero might enable you to split a long mp3 into tracks, been a while since I used it though.
no doubt some other folks will chime in
and forget audacity, it's shite.
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no doubt some other folks will chime in
and forget audacity, it's shite.

I'm beginning to agree with you about audacity.
A google search turns up a few likely candidates, but I just wondered if anyone had any first-hand knowledge about this stuff.
Can't go far wrong with asking clever b3ta-types.
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A google search turns up a few likely candidates, but I just wondered if anyone had any first-hand knowledge about this stuff.
Can't go far wrong with asking clever b3ta-types.

I think any of the programs a google search brings up should be sufficient for simple cutting tasks though
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foobar2000 can do it but it's a nerd program written for nerds like me, it's really user-unfriendly for anything but playback.
The problem with doing things the way you're suggesting is the loss of quality -- each time you save an MP3 as an MP3 it gets passed through all the filters again and loses quality each time, same the copy of a copy of a tape was significantly worse than the original tape. So if you've saved a stream as an MP3 in the first place, ideally you want to avoid cutting it up and REsaving it as an MP3. (If you saved it as a WAV then ignore this, your approach is fine and I'd suggest get hold of Goldwave, it's shareware but fully functional. It's like Audacity but not designed by locking a million dorrito-addicted monkeys in a room and forcing them to ejaculate over a computer keyboard. I fucking hate Audacity, it's gash. Goldwave's really nice though.)
You avoid the quality loss problem with a cutting program. I seem to recall that there's one called mp3split that might do the trick.
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The problem with doing things the way you're suggesting is the loss of quality -- each time you save an MP3 as an MP3 it gets passed through all the filters again and loses quality each time, same the copy of a copy of a tape was significantly worse than the original tape. So if you've saved a stream as an MP3 in the first place, ideally you want to avoid cutting it up and REsaving it as an MP3. (If you saved it as a WAV then ignore this, your approach is fine and I'd suggest get hold of Goldwave, it's shareware but fully functional. It's like Audacity but not designed by locking a million dorrito-addicted monkeys in a room and forcing them to ejaculate over a computer keyboard. I fucking hate Audacity, it's gash. Goldwave's really nice though.)
You avoid the quality loss problem with a cutting program. I seem to recall that there's one called mp3split that might do the trick.

youve got auto-hate enabled on this film though right?
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I don't think it'll be very good in terms of story. But as computer game cutscenes go, I think it'll be ace
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its in 3d right?
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This is relevant to my interests. I never liked the smurfing Smurfs.
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Heheheheh, I was thinking that when I saw the trailer

made the Smurf houses on the second frame just red blobs :(
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saw it on big screen last night and changed his opinion
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make it big and loud enough and you're overwhelmed
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wow, that rhymes
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the only film I ever watched in a foreign language and still didn't miss anything..
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saw the trailer for that last night on the big screen
It does look good though. This is my opinion - I like "switch off and tune out" cinema
I saw 2012 last night and thoroughly enjoyed it even though it was incredibly ludicrous and contrived
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It does look good though. This is my opinion - I like "switch off and tune out" cinema
I saw 2012 last night and thoroughly enjoyed it even though it was incredibly ludicrous and contrived

Me and the missus are trying to get to see 2012 for two weeks now... one of us is always too busy though

saw it at the 9.30 showing last night
it's long
didn't get home while 1
I'm knackerd
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it's long
didn't get home while 1
I'm knackerd

and would be a better watch than the real thing I fear!
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I saw the trailer for this and it left me completely cold - it looked like a series of video game inserts
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does not great cinema make
But it should be some nice eyecandy, as long as you can watch it in 2d and aren't forced to sit through fuzzy vision for 3 hours
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But it should be some nice eyecandy, as long as you can watch it in 2d and aren't forced to sit through fuzzy vision for 3 hours

it's just there to be enjoyed - not analysed
I'd happily watch this kind of thing 20 times over than be forced to sit through typical Oscar Fodder
:_)
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I'd happily watch this kind of thing 20 times over than be forced to sit through typical Oscar Fodder
:_)

;P
*quaffs mead from silver goblet and watches 7 hour long film noir from 1934 featuring one actor in a furnitureless room*
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*quaffs mead from silver goblet and watches 7 hour long film noir from 1934 featuring one actor in a furnitureless room*

I saw that once
the highlight is when he scratches his nose at 6:34:12
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the highlight is when he scratches his nose at 6:34:12

Yeh, eye candy I guess - It's certainly a "cinema" movie
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mainly because they only had one leap out the screen at you moment, and the rest added depth to big vistas. I can't help feeling that things whizzing past constantly and monsters leaping about is going to be quite nausea inducing
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watching Flesh for Frankenstein on C4 the other night, it seemed to all be in sepia, and gave me a headache, but it worked... sort of, even if the 3D effects were all a bit blurry.
I've not seen anything NEW in 3D
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Fri 4 Dec 2009, 10:28,
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I've not seen anything NEW in 3D

On telly it's not quite that easy and therefore, looks a bit poo.
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So everything is darker and less vibrant than normal, but its better than the sepia look of old.
Which is why I'd rather watch the film in 2d. But its not being described as a film its a rollercoaster - just without the excitement, vibration and wind, and with lost of long story bits.
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Which is why I'd rather watch the film in 2d. But its not being described as a film its a rollercoaster - just without the excitement, vibration and wind, and with lost of long story bits.

I think it's the use of 3D to add depth, rather than throw stuff at your face, which made it effective and subtle, rather than gimmicky.
I'm looking forward to Avatar a lot. I bet I'll be disappointed, but for some reason I'm a bit excited about it.
Possibly because I'm tall and blue and it's rare to see my point of view in films.
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I'm looking forward to Avatar a lot. I bet I'll be disappointed, but for some reason I'm a bit excited about it.
Possibly because I'm tall and blue and it's rare to see my point of view in films.

It was horribly gimmicky, weird stuff stood out that distracted from the story - The first thing I remember of that film is a bowl of peas on the dinner table!
Terrible film, not a patch on Corpse Bride or Nightmare, appalling adaptation of the source too
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Terrible film, not a patch on Corpse Bride or Nightmare, appalling adaptation of the source too

I loved the book, and I like the film a lot. Very different, certainly not a direct port over, and with a different feel, but I had a good time. I really liked the 3D, I didn't find it intrusive at all. The noly "showy" bit I remember is the flight over the garden.
If you want bad modern 3D, the excellently shite "The Final Destination" is a great example of a poorly made film that could have nonetheless been a good laugh, crippled by un-necessary special effects and idiotic, poorly implemented 3D.
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If you want bad modern 3D, the excellently shite "The Final Destination" is a great example of a poorly made film that could have nonetheless been a good laugh, crippled by un-necessary special effects and idiotic, poorly implemented 3D.

also reminds me of a recent south park episode -- if you've not seen it you probably should because it's excellent :)
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If we say "Dances with Smurfs" a few more times in this part of the thread perhaps we'll get onto Google?
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Fri 4 Dec 2009, 10:26,
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S13Ep13 "Dances With Smurfs"
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last one I saw was Chef dying I think, but I'd missed loads before that too :(
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but about half the time it gets it right and when it does it's better than it ever was
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I always say "i must start watching this again" and then don't.
The last one I saw was the wrestling one which i thought was genius
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The last one I saw was the wrestling one which i thought was genius

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This type of drawing (plain colors, no gradients) gets a whole lot smaller in (file)size when saved as .gif instead of .jpg while still maintaining best image quality.
Also, get rid of the HTML scaling and scale down your originals instead (you can still link to a larger version if you must). These steps should easily bring it down to under 100kb.
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Also, get rid of the HTML scaling and scale down your originals instead (you can still link to a larger version if you must). These steps should easily bring it down to under 100kb.

advertising his stuff on several sites - check
doesn't listen to helpful comments - check
will post in the same way over and over again - highly probable
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doesn't listen to helpful comments - check
will post in the same way over and over again - highly probable

As I said, try using the gif format, here's one that's readable and only about 75k in size (using 64 colors). Alternatively, use higher jpg compression.
www.b3tards.com/u/0cff6a0bab42c5878699/brainbird.gif
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www.b3tards.com/u/0cff6a0bab42c5878699/brainbird.gif

Yea. I tried to do it, but I was having trouble. I will try again
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HOW BIG DO YOU WANT?
People did ask you before, you replied, you acknowledged it was big (though you didn't change the picture). Then you go and post a picture that's 600 fucking k (edit: got carried away there). Which isn't much but it's six times bigger than the guideline, which even with a liberal take on filesizes is just taking the fucking piss.
This would probably be 80k if you saved it as a GIF or an indexed PNG -- with no loss of quality whatosever. Leaving it as an absurdly large JPG is nothing more than sheer fucking laziness.
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People did ask you before, you replied, you acknowledged it was big (though you didn't change the picture). Then you go and post a picture that's 600 fucking k (edit: got carried away there). Which isn't much but it's six times bigger than the guideline, which even with a liberal take on filesizes is just taking the fucking piss.
This would probably be 80k if you saved it as a GIF or an indexed PNG -- with no loss of quality whatosever. Leaving it as an absurdly large JPG is nothing more than sheer fucking laziness.

;P
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Sorry fella. Lack of sleep + lack of morning coffee = loss of perspective. No excuse for being a prick.
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couldn't figure out how to save it as a gif in photoshop for some reason. It said save as "compuserve gif" , and i wasn't sure if that was the same thing...
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If I removed the donkey, the rider would be a bow-legged squatty guy on tiptoes, and I'm just not into that ;p
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Fri 4 Dec 2009, 9:52,
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Also, this source of Jesus reminds me of Richard Madeley.
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Fri 4 Dec 2009, 8:34,
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/needs more stolen wine to be Madeley =D
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I'll just conclude that Jesus opened up a food joint and leave it with that
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that since he called it Lamb of God, he's selling bits of his body for people to eat, therefore making this a sly comment on the cannibalism inherent in Holy Communion.
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